Redtail Rise [M] Ah but working too hard can give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack

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She returned to the Southwestern borders on a counterclockwise patrol, only to find herself picking up the scent of bear once more- only this time, it was stronger. She caught sight of them in the distance, and while they'd not crossed into the wolves' territory, they were lingering far too close. Foolish, Lilia thought, considering that the sow had a cub with her. She quickly realized that there were two cubs, when another rushed out of the tall swamp grass to tackle its sibling. 

She held her ground and woofed, to get the sow's attention, and she turned her head toward the wolf, obviously surprised. The cubs wrestled and growled on the ground at her feet, and for a moment, the two females simply stared at one another. They were a risk to each other, and to the families they both had. Lilia growled, and flagged her tail, uttering another loud bark. 

Having no claim to the swamp, and seeming to want no interaction with a pack of wolves, the mother bear rocked forward to her feet, and nudged her tumbling children so that they might begin to walk with her, away from the pack's borders. 

Wanting to make sure they did not circle back, Lilia continued to pursue them at a great distance- though it was a tough task. It seemed like every few feet, the cubs decided to wrestle or chew on something they found, or grab at their mother's ankles to slow her down. They were oblivious to the danger that they were in and their frustrated mother had to continuously stop to shake one of the cubs loose from her great, shaggy hind end and set him on his way again. 

Lilia couldn't help but smile faintly at their antics as she continued to peacefully shepherd the small family of black bears away.